Paper-package.



S. WHEELER.

PAPER PACKAGE.

APPLICATION FILED 10110.18, 1912 I 1,088,389. Patented Feb. 24, 1914,

3 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

S. WHEELER.

PAPER PACKAGE. APPLICATION FILED DEC.18, 1912.

Patented Feb. 24, 191i 3 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

gwwwboz S. WHEELER.

PAPER PACKAGE.

APPLIOATION FILED DEO.18, 1912.

Patented Feb. 24, 1914.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

SETH WHEELER, or ALBAN-Y, NEW YORK.

PAPER-PACKAGE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 18, 1912.

Patented Feb. 24, 1914.

Serial No. 737,399.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l[, SETH WHEELER, Albany, in the count of Albany, andin the State of New York, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Paper- Packages, and do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact descri tion thereof.

T e object of my invention has been to provide a paper ackage by whichpaper may be delivered mm a receptacle preventing access to the contentsas a whole, and permittin the user to obtain one unit at a time, sue forinstance, as for the purpose of delivering paper towels or toilet paper.And the particular object of my invention has been to provide'a packagewhich shall have, among others, the following advantages: That it mayalwa s present the units with a doubled or doub e edge for the user totake hold of; that such doubled or double edge may always project in thesame direction; that the withdrawal of the lowermost unit shall, withcertainty, bring within reach the doubled or double edge of the nextlowermost unit and prevent such unit from curling up within thereceptacle; that instead of, as heretofore, delivering two or moreseparated sheets of paper my package shall deliver such sheets securedtogether so that they cannot become separated and one of them dropped onthe floor; and that it shall permit of the use of a receptacle havinrelatively slight depth horizontally. A11 to such ends my inventionconsists in the paper package hereinafter specified.

While my invention iscapable of use for various purposes, I shalldescribe it as ap-. plied to toilet paper and shall describe it by thebest embodiment known tome, but such embodiment is to be taken astypical only of many possible embodiments, and my invention is not to beconfined to the form described. V

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of ametal reoeptacle or cabinet containing one of my packages of paper, andhaving a door to prevent-unauthorized access to the package; Fig. 2 is aperspective view of a package embodying my invention, the sheets orunits forming the package being sllghtly separated to make theconstruction more evident- Fig. 3 is a plan view of a single sheet whichmay form one of the units of my invention, the sheet being unfolded;Fig. 4 is a plan view of such unit folded; and Fig. 5 is an end view ofFig. 4, and Fig. 6 is a perspective view corresponding to Fig. 2, pf apackage in which the doubled edge of each unit is underneath bot-h ofthe terminal leaves of the next unit.

In the drawings, the metal casing 1 has a door 2 which can be locked toprevent unauthorized access. to the packa e. It is desired to have thelower unit or s set of paper of the package always accessible byprojecting through a slot 3 in the bottom of the receptacle, so that theuser may obtain theunits or sheets one at a time bypulling down thelowermost unit, such action also bringing within reach a portion of thenext lowermost unit, and so on.

M units, as shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 5, consist of a sheet 4 havingpreferably a cen tral transverse fold 5 and parallel folds 6 a and 7,and 8 and 9 on opposite sidesof the fold 5, respectively, and the paperis so folded as to present a doubled edge 10 connecting leaves 11 and 12(preferably to be taken hold of by the user, as later described) freeleaves 13 and 14, respectively, and intermediate leaves 15 and 16,respectively connecting the leaves 11 and 13 and 1 2 and 14. As shown inFig. 2, the said units or sheets are interlocked together to form astack or pile, the doubled edge 10 and leaves 11 and 12 of one sheetbeing preferably received between the terminals 13 and 14 of the nextlower sheet, although such doubled edge 10.

and leaves may be underneath both of such terminal leaves or the packagein either of these conditions may be reversed. Thus each.

sheet or unit lies with its doubled edge 10 and leaves 11 and 12lowermost and its terminals above.

In using my package in the pre ferrcd em bodiment shown in the drawings.it is insorted into the case with the double edge 10 of the lowermostunit or sheet projecting through the slot and hanging where the user mayreach it. When he wishes a unit or sheet he engages the leaves 11 and 12of the doubled edge 10 and pulls downward. This not only releases thelowermost unit but carries with it the corresponding parts of the nextunit above. The action of my .package is verycertain in drawing down thedoubled edge 10 and leaves 11 and 12 of the succeeding unit, so-that itshall project through the slot, because such parts are engaged bothabove and below by the free terof only six panels, so to speak, it is tobe unminals or leaves 13 and 14 of the preceding derstood that a greaternumber of panels unit, and thus the corresponding parts of may be formedwithin the scope of my inthe succeeding unit are prevented fromcurlvention. 6 ing up within the receptacle and failing to I claimcomeout through the slot. It will be ob- 1. A package for toilet or towelpurposes served that the doubled edges of my units composed of sheets orunits doubled on a mevall project in the same direction so that theydian line, said doubled sheet being also toldare much easier to graspthan if, as with ed on a line parallel to the median line, that 2 1.some packages prior to mine, they projected portion of the sheetadjacent the median line alternately in opposite directions. Thebotbeing interleaved with the next unit. tom edge of my unit beingalways double 2. A package for toilet or towel purposes afiords a surehold for the fingers and one consisting of sheets or units doubled on aless liable to break, than if it were single. median line, said doubledsheet being. also 15 lVhile my unit may consist practicall of folded ontwo separated lines parallel to the two sheets of paper united at thedou led median line, said last mentioned folds being edge, it avoids thedisadvantage of previous in opposite directions, a free leaf of eachunit packages, which have delivered two sheets being between thatportion of the sheet adof paper at a time not fastened together, injacent to the median line and the leaves at- 20 that one of said sheetscannot get out of contached thereto.

trol and fall to the floor. My units are of In testimony that I claimthe foregoing I such small lateral dimensions that, although havehereunto set my hand.

comparatively large sheets can be delivered, SETH WHEELER. the cabinetneed project from the wall only Witnesses: 25 a comparatively slightdistance. M. A. WHEELER,

While I have shown my unit as consisting SETH WHEELER, Jr.

